Sleeping Nymph
Sleeping Nymph

Currently not on view

Sleeping Nymph

after Giambologna, 1529–1608; born Douai, France; died Florence, Italy; active Florence, Italy
x1976-45

Information

Title
Sleeping Nymph
Maker
after Giambologna
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Dimensions
15.8 × 25.7 cm. (6 1/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1976-45
Inscription
in graphite, on verso of mount lower left: J. Cousin
Type
drawings
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product), wash
Subject
nymphs, sleeping, reclining, figures (representations), sheets (bed coverings), nudes

Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (probably given to the Art Museum in the 1940s)

In 1981, Jennifer Montagu recognized this as a copy after Giambologna's small bronze, Sleeping Nymph. The drawing has simplified the details of the sculpture and uses a heavy outline and subtle shading, making the drawing's nationality difficult to ascertain. The artist may have been from north of the Alps.

Adapted from Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014): p. 244.

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